Top 380 Drowning Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.
Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.
Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.
I know that look, Blake. You are a drowning woman, and the only way out is down the aisle.
For the first time in his existence, he knew he was drowning and he wasn't thinking about survival.
We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.
Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.
I can't swim and I'm terrified of drowning, but I still love being by water - just not in it.
You ought to know how to rise above the trivialities of life, in which most people are found drowning themselves.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
When I was very young, my nanny was a big Newfoundland dog... whose task was to keep me from drowning.
They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning. I like to live on the edge.
I was taught that if you see a person drowning, you must jump into the water to save them, whether you can swim or not.
always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives
Nixon is the kind of guy who, if you were drowning twenty feet from shore, would throw you a fifteen-foot rope.
We drift down time, clutching at straws. But what good's a brick to a drowning man?
In this republican country, amid the fluctuating waves of our social life, somebody is always at the drowning-point.
I sense that his drowning but I don't have any idea of how to start to put my hand into the water and save him.
Asia discovered two remedies for the cruelty of man, art and religion. America discarded both and is drowning in hate and aggressivity.
The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.
When I started making my own records, I had this idea of drowning out the singer and putting the rest in the foreground. It was the background that interested me.
Once again, I had that feeling of drowning when I hadn’t even known I was in the pool
The birth of a doubt that was once your belief is drowning in the tears that you cry.
Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?
He kissed me desperately, like a drowning man and I was his oxygen.
No drowning man can know which drop of water his last breath did stop.
Swimming is good for you, especially if you're drowning. Not only do you get a cardiovascular workout but also you don't die.
Soft drinks: The gooey, bubbly sea drowning our American children.
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
Reasoning with a drunkard is like
Going under water with a torch to seek for a drowning man.
It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.
I love you with the passion of a drowning man for breathing air. I can't just have enough of you and having you a little would be disastrous.
You know what it's like having five kids? Imagine you're drowning. And someone hands you a baby.
I was adrift in a sea of questions and if answers were lifeboats, I was in imminent danger of drowning.
The burning conviction that we have a holy duty toward others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft.
You idiot!" She spat, flattening her ears. "What are you doing in my territory?" "Drowning?" Replied Graystripe.
There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.
At some point, we have to stop a force that's going out and drowning people in steel cages and chopping off heads.
If I have unjustly wrested a plank from a drowning man, I must restore it to him though I drown myself.
Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.
"The sounds of people drowning are something that I can not describe to you, and neither can anyone else. It's the most dreadful sound and there is a terrible silence that follows it."
If it was true that lower taxes for the rich and more wealth to the wealthy leat to job creation, today we would be drowning in jobs.
There is a gulf as wide as an ocean between should and want, and I am drowning in it.
Anxiety is love's greatest killer, because it is like the stranglehold of the drowning.
The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.
hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
We shouldn't be profiting from our students who are drowning in debt while giving a great deal to the banks. That's just wrong.
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.
We're all drowning in data. We all need moments of recovery. For me, that includes not going right to my phone when I wake up in the morning.
When someone is drowning in the ocean of attachments, Surrender is the life jacket they can put on and wait for the rescue team
I'd just stepped out of the kiddie pool and into the deep end, with no floaties. And drowning was not an option.
What do you do when your competitor is drowning? Get a live hose - and stick it in his mouth.
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself.
I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I'm drowning in ellipses.
... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
When a man is drowning, it may be better for him to try to swim than to thrash around waiting for divine intervention.
If my competitor were drowning I'd stick a hose in his mouth and turn on the water.
You can't keep a cool head when you're drowning in love. You just trash around a lot and scream, and wear yourself out.
